… Staff artist Joel Mayorga’s cartoon, titled “The Liberal Case for Israel,” depicts a grinning Dershowitz with an elongated nose and exaggerated lips facing an audience. Behind a screen, he is seen stomping on a Palestinian while holding up an Israeli Defense Forces soldier shooting another in cold blood. Are you aware that its anti-Semitic imagery connects directly to the centuries-old ‘blood libel’ that falsely accused Jews of engaging in ritual murder?” UC Berkeley Chancellor Carol Christ wrote in a letter to the editor that ran Tuesday. READ MORE